PATH or PYTHONPATH under Windows ???

[stef]

Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Stef Mientki (Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:57:15 +0200)
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>> after cleaning up a PC,
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> Uou purposely deleted things you had no clue about?!
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Yes,
but you should have seen what a "professional" package like LabView / 
LabWindows,
all had installed on my PC ;-)
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>> Python can't find any libraries anymore.
>> But happily I've still one PC, where Python is running perfect.
>> Now I always read about the environment variable "PYTHONPATH".
>> But on neither PC there exists a "PYTHONPATH".
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> That's totally normal.
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but why is everybody alwasy talking about the "environment variable 
PYTHONPATH" ??
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>> On the PC that works ok,
>> there is the standard "PATH" environment variable,
>> and indeed there are all the Python Library references.
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> That's not okay. At the best it's completely useless.
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???
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>> Please enlighten me.
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> Use common sense: reinstalling Python is likely the fastest way.
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Yes I know,
But the point is, I want to promote Python to colleagues,
show them that it's equally well suited as MatLab,
installation of Scipy + wxPython + a few other packages is terrible 
difficult.
So I can not even past the front door ;-)

Therefor I'm trying to understand the search path problem,
to make a "1-button" install (through Inno Setup),
and yesterday I was forced to try that 1-button install myself :-(

cheers,
Stef Mientki





> Thorsten
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